Investor Sentiment, Financial Report Quality and Stock Price Crash Risk: Role of Short-Sales Constraints

Yugang Yin and Rongfu Tian

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2017, vol. 53, issue 3, 493-510

Abstract: We use firm-year observations of Chinese firms between 2003 and 2013 and empirically investigate the association between investor sentiment and stock crash risk with respect to short-sales constraint conditions. In addition, we also evaluate the incremental effect of financial reporting quality on this association and the existence of such an association under market conditions. We find that investor sentiment is positively associated with future stock price crash risk and poorer financial report quality and short-sale constraint will strengthen this association. In consideration of the firm-level fundamental information in stock prices and different market states, we find that lower fundamental information in stock price and bull market state will strengthen the positive association between investor sentiment and future stock price crash risk. Our findings are robust with several robustness checks.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2015.1093844

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